{"product_id":"jim-and-jap-crow-matthew-m-briones-9780691161938","title":"Jim and Jap Crow: A Cultural History of 1940s Interracial America","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese Americans and sent them to internment camps. One of those internees was Charles Kikuchi. In thousands of diary pages, he documented his experiences in the camps, his resettlement in Chicago and drafting into the Army on the eve of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his postwar life as a social worker in New York City. Kikuchi's diaries bear witness to a watershed era in American race relations, and expose both the promise and the hypocrisy of American democracy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJim and Jap Crow\u003c\/i\u003e follows Kikuchi's personal odyssey among fellow Japanese American intellectuals, immigrant activists, Chicago School social scientists, everyday people on Chicago's South Side, and psychologically scarred veterans in the hospitals of New York. The book chronicles a remarkable moment in America's history in which interracial alliances challenged the limits of the elusive democratic ideal, and in which the nation was forced to choose between civil liberty and the fearful politics of racial hysteria. It was an era of world war and the atomic bomb, desegregation in the military but Jim and Jap Crow elsewhere in America, and a hopeful progressivism that gave way to Cold War paranoia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJim and Jap Crow\u003c\/i\u003e looks at Kikuchi's life and diaries as a lens through which to observe the possibilities, failures, and key conversations in a dynamic multiracial America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew M. Briones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691161933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691161938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/26\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Matthew M. Briones","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946951639295,"sku":"9780691161938","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d5e4a4dd-8038-4655-95b3-a35c4522538e.jpg?v=1681515876","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jim-and-jap-crow-matthew-m-briones-9780691161938","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}